Entries Tagged as 'Hotels'

It’s one of the more common themes in Sci-Fi — the parallel universe — a place where everything you know exists but everything is different. Ha! Well, I experienced a little PU in my hotel room the other night in Pocatello, Idaho. It’s a long story … The disaster team, traveling on […]

The Dirty Gig is full of characters … never a dull moment … And Puerto Rico was no different. Working at the storied El San Juan Hotel in Carolina, Puerto Rico, one of my colleagues supervised a laborer named Ura who just stood out above the others … for his personality and attitude … not […]

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all who have served and especially for those brave souls and their loved ones who have made the ultimate sacrifice. With all due respect for the holiday, PingWi-Fi.com is open for business and blogging …

Interesting. Tragic. Arriving in New York the day that a maniac crashed his car through a crowd of innocent people in Times Square. OH to have been a Texan with a legal gun near that car to have taken the guy out before he killed an innocent girl on vacation in this great city. Through terrible […]

“That’s right, ‘I AM’ from Texas,” to misquote a lyric from AggieLand’s Lyle Lovett … but even though I am from Texas, sorry to say I don’t like very much country music. But, there have been a few moments when country music has struck a chord … I remember several of my buddies and I […]

There’s not much worse than hotel laundries for the traveler. Seldom does anything positive come from there. To summarize: Typically the machines are old and slow Typically the machines are full, but have stopped spinning sometime … yesterday Typically the owner of the non-spinning clothes has passed out after gorging on room service The sky’s […]

I must admit, the travel life can be pretty interesting … and on the other hand, sometimes it becomes mundane. That’s when I try to find the good in all … or more accurately, just have fun with it. Take elevators. Pretty mundane, but there’s got to be something interesting about them. Don’t they call […]

Once again The Dirty Gig* provided a venue to keep a tradition alive. A couple of years back, working in the housing projects of New York City, I shared with my inner city workers the magic of the tape ball — a fun little thing I picked up from a high school coach. Well … […]

It was the first road trip. It was the first real road trip, because an occasional backroads excursion to Muleshoe or to Lubbock where just not life changing. As farmers, of modest means at that, we just didn’t take vacations. Then my dad shocked everyone and announced we were headed to Florida for Spring […]

After the initial Republican Debate euphoria and the chance meet up with #MajorGarrett (in the previous blog), The Dirty Gig in South Carolina slowed to a snail’s pace … kinda like a long, slow, southern drawl. Day in, day out, we suited up in Tyvek suits and cleaned grease and soot off industrial machines. The […]